“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was e...”

“But no one can predict of a certainty what will happen. And none of it will change how I intend to spend the rest of my life. I will live it on my terms. And you... you can have all of me or...”

“I love you, he thought, looking at Win. I love every part of you, every thought and word... the entire complex, fascinating bundle of all the things you are. I want you with ten different ki...”

“If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?”

“Opening up to the wrong person is like putting ammo in their hands.”

“Shock is a merciful condition. It allows you to get through disaster with a necessary distance between you and your feelings.”

“You have to rely on whatever sparks you have inside.”

“The span of three or four minutes is pretty insignificant in the scheme of things. People lose hundreds of minutes everyday, squandering them on trivial things. But sometimes in those fragme...”

“... I discovered life sometimes has a way of giving you what you need, but not in the form you expect.”